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Barbosa, Andrés
Moreno, Eulalia
2008-12-10T10:31:01Z
2008-12-10T10:31:01Z
1999
The Auk 116(3):712-725, 1999
0004-8038
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/9048
Wsteu diedt he relationshipbse tweenb ill andh indlimbm orphologya ndf oragingb
ehaviori n 17 specieso f shorebirdsw ithin a phylogeneticfr amework.T he results
showt hat the evolutionaryc hangein bill lengthi s relatedt o the evolutionaryc hangein foraging
strategiesfr om visual hunting to tactileh unting.W e alsof ound evolutionaryr elationshipsb
etweena n increasein bill lengtha ndb othp lunginga nds weepingfo ragingm ovements,
a nd a decreasein bill length and "routing" behaviorN. o relationshipws ere found
betweenh indlimb morphologya nd movementp attern (continuoush unting speciesv s.
pause-travesl pecies)E. xaminingt he evolutionaryra te of changein bill and hindlimbs tructuress
howst hat the family Scolopacidaaen d the subfamilyR ecurvirostrinaeev olvedm ore
rapidly thant he specieso f CharadriinaeR. esultsf rom our ecomorphologicaanl de volutionary
analysiss upportt he hypothesisb y Zweersa nd co-workerso n the evolutiono f feeding
mechanismisn shorebirdsR. eceive5d J anuary1 998,a ccepte1d4 Decembe1r9 98.
eng
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Shorebirds
Ecomorphology
Evolution of foraging strategies in shorebirds : an ecomorphological approach
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